St. Paul daily globe., 1887-03-25
TRE COERCION BILL.
Gladstone Vigorously Opposes 1t IN
the House of COnl In ous.

LONDON, March 24-In the house OF
commons this evening the debate on the
motion for urgency for the coercion bill was
resumed by Gladstone. He referred to the
unprecedented position of the house. which
had already sat two months, during which,
he said, It's independent action had been
suppressed Even now the Conservatives
eXulted over the prospect of passing motion
forcing the house to absolutely surrender
it's whole time until a bill Of extremely
severe character has been carried. The
house is threatened with the frequent appli-
cation of clOture if the debates are pro-
tracted. No greater calamity could befall
the house than this sort of pressure. 1t
would sap the authority of the chair and
bring the procedure rules into disrepute.
He had seen more parliamentary life than
any other man in the house, but he never
knew of so grave state of affairs. 1t was
due to the extreme abuse of power by the
majority which, if presisted in, would leave
behind sense of intolerable wrong. The
yoke thus put OH the neck of the house
could not be borne patiently. The position
of affairs was very different from that when
the coercion bill of 1881 was passed. No
papers are before the house now, nor was
there any indication Of the nature of the
proposed government measure. Therefore.
in asking special legislation for dealing
with crime i'll Ireland, the ministers
tried to show the terrible prevalence OF
crime that threatened social order. was
that the case now? The house had been
told that the number of agrarlan offenses
prior to the passage of ForSter's coercion
act exceeded the highest number since.
Crime then. however, was of a different
character from that which the government
now sought to check. The present crime
consisted in combining to obtain reduc-
ton of rent. Irish cheers. Even the
evidence which the government had put
before the house showed that this crime
was restricted to demands for just abate-
ments of rent. Never had any former
coercion act been resisted by majority of
the members from Ireland. Cheers.
Now there was a protest against coercion
from an overwhelming majority OF the
Irish members. Cheers.
Gladstone's denuuciation of the use OF
cloture to curtail the debates on the urgency
motion and coercion bill has forced the gov
eminent to reconsider the subject. The
ministry has decided to permit a prolonga-
ton of the discussion, but will insist that
the house forego its Easter vacation unless
the coercion bill be passed before the holi-
days A section of the Gladstonian party
is discontented with Gladstone's half yelled
approval of the plan of campaign. The
English home rulers and Parnelltes are de-
lighted with the speech. Balfour i'll intro
ducing the coercion bill will respond to
GladstOne's challenge to the government
ESaafONr Denounced.
DUBLIN, March 24.-The United Ireland
(Alr. Parnell's organ) publishes bitter at
tack upon Mr.. Balfour, under secretary for
Ireland. 1t calls him 1.-The bloody Balfour,
with tigers heart wrapped in woman's
hide" and says: He has entered lightly
into struggle with the Catholic church, in
which struggles the proudest despots have
been humbled into the dust. Prince Bis
marck swaying the destinies of Europe in
his whole career but once learned the Bit
terness of defeat, and that was when he
laid his hand on the church, which resents
the sacrelgious handling of the sacred priv
ilegeS OF the priesthood"